Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland Oregon are all taxing companies that pay executives excessively.

Seattle was the most recent one to do it, taxing companies 5% on everything they pay executives over $1 million, and using the estimated $30 to $80 million in annual revenue to fund social housing.

In this guest lecture, Tiffani McCoy shares how they did it. As the co-executive director of House Our Neighbors, she shares how they got the signatures and passed the ballot measure this year—all while Amazon and Microsoft aggressively fought it.

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